Junior Year (2014)
Appeared and started in all 33 matches, playing in all 124 sets … selected to the All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team for the third-consecutive year … earned AVCA All-Region honorable mention status … named the 2014 MVC Tournament Most Valuable Player after leading Illinois State to its first conference tournament title in 17 years … named to the Missouri Tiger Invitational and Oregon Tournament all-tournament teams … recorded a career-high 23 kills against Drake (10/18) … registered a career-best .593 hitting percentage against Evansville (9/28) … tallied a career-high 23 digs in NCAA Tournament win over Marquette (12/4) … registered double-digits kills in 27 matches … recorded double-digit digs in 15 matches, including the team’s final eight matches of the season … recorded 14 double-doubles (kills/digs) … made at least one block in all but five of the team’s 33 matches … dished out an assist in 14 matches … led the Redbirds in kills (425), kills per set (3.43) and points (470) … was a 2014 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team selection … named to the 2014 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second-consecutive year.
Sophomore Year (2013)
Appeared and started in all 32 matches … was an All-MVC First-Team selection … named to 2013 MVC Championship All-Tournament team … ranked first on the team in points (441.5), kills (389) and kills per set (3.21) … ranked third in digs (298), service aces (24) and service aces per set (0.20), while ranking fourth in hitting percentage (.219), digs per set (2.46), blocks (52), solo blocks (5) and block assists (47) … set a career high with six block assists against Bradley (11/1) … recorded a career-high four service aces against Drake (10/17) … dished out a career-high five assists at Southern Illinois (11/22) … clubbed a season-high 18 kills in two matches … recorded double-digit kills in 23 matches … recorded eight double-doubles (kills/digs) … selected to the IUPUI Hampton Inn Invitational All-Tournament Team … was a 2013 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team selection … selected to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team … named to AFNI and MVC honor rolls … earned MVC Commissioner’s Excellence Award.
Freshman Year (2012)
Appeared and started in all 30 matches … named MVC Freshman of the Year … earned All-MVC First-Team honors, as only the sixth freshman in MVC history and second Redbird in team history to earn first-team honors … also named to MVC All-Freshman Team … named Illinois State Linda Herman Most Valuable Player … ranked first among Redbird players in points (387), kills (336) and kills per set (3.08) … ranked second in digs (324) and third in service aces (22) … three-time MVC Freshman of the Week … compiled double-digit kills in 20 matches … recorded a career-high 26 points against Bradley (9/22) … registered a career-high two solo blocks at Ball State (8/25) … produced 12 double-double performances (digs/kills) … recorded double-digit digs 17 times … named to the Ball State Active Ankle Challenge and Toledo Rocket Classic all-tournament teams.
Prior to ISU
Four-year letter winner at Cary-Grove High School … 2011 Northwest Herald First-Team selection … named her team’s most valuable player and a team captain as a senior … two-time all-conference and Daily Herald all-area selection … appeared in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Volleyball Tournament three times, and helped the team to a state championship in 2009 … member of the Sky High volleyball club … two-time AAU National Champion … 2010 AAU All-American and USA All-American selection … finished third at the USA junior volleyball nationals in 2010.
Personal
Ashley Christel Rosch … born August 22, 1994 … daughter of Manfred and Dawn Rosch … has one sister (Rachel) and one brother (Karl) … major is health sciences-environmental health … last name is pronounced: RUSH.